Category Archives: Local News

Thanks to the Lumpkin Family Foundation's generosity, Ride Illinois is coming to town and we need you there! Come support cycling in Mattoon and share ideas about what you'd like to see in the future....

MATTOON - A noon hour program with a local expert on Wednesday (March 7, 2018) is designed as a way to enhance your spring lawn program. Paul Icenogle, a master gardener who spent 18 years caring for ...

Friends of Camp New Hope and CCAR Industries will sponsor an estate planning seminar March 20th from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Sarah Bush Lincoln Educational Training Center. Brad Beasley, from First Mid ...

Beecher city will be flushing fire hydrants Wednesday - Friday, March 7 - 9, 2018. Please refrain from washing clothes during this time.

The 7th annual Camp New Hope Jeep Run will be Saturday, April 7th. Sign-up will be at 11:00 a.m., and the run starts at 12:30. Cost is $10 per person. The post-ride party will be at the Walkway, on La...

The Mattoon American Legion will host a quarter auction to benefit Special Olympics March 15th. The auction will feature 20- plus vendors with crafts, books, toys, purses, yard dcor, make-up, kitchenw...

Illinois' Largest Solar Farm Planned For Southern Illinois (Pinckneyville, IL) -- Tiny Pinckneyville, Illinois, should soon be home to the state's largest solar farm. Planners yesterday announced that...

Rauner Administration To Rebuild Quincy Vets Home, Eventually (Chicago, IL) -- The latest plan from Governor Bruce Rauner's administration to deal with Legionnaires' disease at the Quincy veterans hom...

A Tower Hill man charged with aggravated kidnapping made his first appearance with counsel in Shelby County Court yesterday. 30-year-old Allen G. Matlock was taken into custody on a Shelby County warr...

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